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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Interbase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandOracles in-memory data grid solutionRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerEmbarcaderoOracleOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132005198420072015
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 2023InterBase 2020, December 201914.1, August 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoLive Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseInterbase Change Viewsyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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